Download Geoconservation in HaTeg Country Dinosaurs` Geopark

GEOCONSERVATION IN HATEG COUNTRY
DINOSAURS' GEOPARK
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TOPIC OF THE CASE STUDY
SUSTAINABLE GEOCONSERVATION
IN HATEG COUNTRY DINOSAURS'
GEOPARK
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CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION
How can we enforce the local and
cultural identity from the inhabitants of
the Hateg Geopark
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RESEARCH APPROACH
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Using the Internet to research for bibliography on Hateg community
Using the advantage of having the director of the Geopark as the expert
Using the points of view of the group about European Geoparks
Combined efforts for all the areas that we had experts in
a. Tourism
b. Economics
c. Geology
d. Social behavior
e. Cultural heritage
f. Environment
g. Romania
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ECONOMY OF ROMANIA
• Workforce
Better than other European countries, Low unemployment
• Poverty line
Positive evolution, 4 million people
• Purchasing power
Positive evolution, In other countries, the evolution is
better
• Export
Electricity and petroleum, Positive effect
ECONOMY OF HATEG
• Industry
Textile, forestry and food industry
• Purchasing power
Higher than the average, Good welfare
• Unemployment
Higher in comparison with other provinces, 1250 people
have no job in Hunedoara
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TRANSPORT IN ROMANIA
• Airport
53 airports, good infrastructure
• Highways
Good connection between cities, Half hour away from Hateg
• Railways
some good, some bad connection and infrastructure
CONCLUSION
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Economy is in a positive evolution
Hateg is located in the rich region
Good mobility to the geopark
Big difference between rich and poor regions
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CULTURAL IDENTITY OF HATEG COUNTRY’S PEOPLE
Intangible heritage
- traditional food
- main themes (popular stories)
- legends
- traditional dances and music
- arts and crafts
- traditional holydays
Tangible heritage
- traditional folkloric costumes
- traditional architecture: Monuments
a. Traditional architecture
b. Churches
c. Castles and Fortresses
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BEHAVIOR & ATTITUDES
How important is the behaviour of the citizens of Hateg Geopark in
order to create SDS?
People have different perceptions about environmental problems → many problems are manmade.
The environment of the park is affected by the functioning of the park’s inhabitants → behaviour and attitudes are of critical
importance.
Points to take into consideration when studying behaviour and attitudes:
•Develop research methods (behavioural studies in the park)
•How do people in the park deal with environmental stress when their life changes dramatically (new industries, touristic
industry)
•What behaviour can be expected from the population in the park & what behavioural patterns are possible
•Why is it important to measure the behaviour from the people involved in the park?
•What is the importance of the common dilemma to achieve a sustainable development strategy in the Park?
•Psychological explanation of behaviour from the people in the park → important is the quality of life (example poverty
leads to higher crime)
•Other factors determining human behaviour in the park
•Management strategies to achieve sustainable development strategy in the park
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IMPACT OF MODERN WELFARE
• From old handicrafts – new époque – industry
• The man became the worker (Communism)
• Today: industry – left behind : the service (tourism), renewable energy
industry in the GEOPARK
• The quality of life (for all the 10 villages and 1 city):
a. health
b. education
c. human rights
d. income
e. availability of goods and services
• Problems
• Solutions
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HATEG GEODIVERSITY
• The fossils found in the Hațeg area span over 300 million years of Earth's geologic history,
showing tropical coral reefs and volcanic island in the Tethys Sea was an ocean that existed
between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia during much of the Mesozoic era.
• Hațeg Island was an island during the Cretaceous Period. Even if in this period the life
conditions were very narrow, numerous species of herbivore – carnivore dinosaurs have been
developed, crocodiles, turtles, gastropods, ostracodes, vertebrates and different plant species.
• Many ideas and words are spread around about the geodiversity of the Hațeg area, which is
bound by the diversity of the geological and geomorphological phenomenon's in a certain
area, but also by de biodiversity that steers and natural development characterised by a
massive variety of vegetation, to whom altitudinal distribution is conditioned by the relief and
the particular topoclimatic conditions.
• The importance of this is how it is viewed, from a perspective and how profound we want to
go in identifying the connections between terrestrial systems and their effects.
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TOURISM
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What's Sustainable Tourism?
Why mass tourism wont be Sustainable in Hateg?
Why domestic tourism will be important to Hateg?
How to have tourism and Sustainable Development at the same time.
Types of tourism with good potential in the Hateg area:
a. AgroTourism
b. Ecotourism
c. Geotourism
d. Rural Tourism
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MAIN RESULTS
• Sustainable Development in Hateg Region will bring:
a) Employment to the region
b) Getting the social and cultural heritage to be sustainable
c) Changing behaviors in political decisions
d) A healthy economic region
e) Getting youth to stay in villages where is a real possibility of
employment, or even self employment for them
• Social and cultural heritage don’t risk of being affected by the lack of
youth in the region
• People are proud of their cultural heritage
• Many Romanian people know where is Hateg, but not really what the
Geopark offers
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CONCLUSIONS
Conditions in the geopark are not ideal for the creation of favourable
behaviour for achieving SDS i.e. poor living conditions, institutional
corruption, bad economy, lack of an interdisciplinary team, poor
support from the government → tunnel vision?
Recommendations:
1.define target group and consequently target behaviour
2.observe and describe current behaviour
3.make the correct political decision
4.Intervene in social and environmental behaviours
5.re-checking of intervention → is the desired behaviour achieved?
6.try to avoid mass tourism
7.try to create workshop to the comunity from the comunity
8.being present on the main touristic sites of Romania
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MEMBERS
Jonas Van Moer
University: Universiteit Antwerpen
City and country: Beveren-Waas,
Belgium
Economics
Philippe Van Mullem
University: Open University Hasselt
City and country: Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Green energy
Bianca Stanciulescu
University: University of Bucharest
City and country: Bucharest, Romania
Cultural and geological heritage
Claudio Jardim
University: Universidade Aberta
City and country: Funchal /
Madeira / Portugal
Sustainable Tourism
Cristina Toma
University: The University
of Bucharest
City and country:
Bucharest, Romania
Cultural and social heritage
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HOW WE MADE USE OF THE DIVERSITY OF DISCIPLINARY AND NATIONAL BACKGROUNDS IN
THE RESEARCH WORK.
• Getting advantage of the multidisciplinary diversity
• The National diversity was of great value since we had two
persons that are from the country of the research to be done
• The difference in ages was also a plus in the group
• The use of a common language was the most essential point
• Having totally different points of view is very enriching
• The many emails and skype meetings and the use of EVS
platform was a common tool for us all, and a way of being
all together working
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THANK YOU ALL
We are grateful to our respective Universities, which enabled us to put our
theoretical knowledge to practise in this case study.
We also would like to thank our mentor, C. Ciobanu, prof. A. Andrasanu and
prof. Joop de Kraker for their support and assistance where needed.
We sincerely hope that our work will contribute to achieve
sustainable development in the Hateg Geopark in Romania.
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